Marc Moonen is a Full Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of KU Leuven, where he is heading a research team working in the area of numerical algorithms and signal processing for digital communications, wireless communications, DSL and audio signal processing.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE (2007). He received the 1994 KU Leuven Research Council Award, the 1997 Alcatel Bell (Belgium) Award (with Piet Vandaele), the 2004 Alcatel Bell (Belgium) Award (with Raphael Cendrillon), and was a 1997 Laureate of the Belgium Royal Academy of Science. He received journal best paper awards from the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (with Geert Leus and with Daniele Giacobello) and from Elsevier Signal Processing (with Simon Doclo).

He was chairman of the IEEE Benelux Signal Processing Chapter (1998-2002), a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications, and President of EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing, 2007-2008 and 2011-2012).

He has served as Editor-in-Chief for the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (2003-2005), Area Editor for Feature Articles in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2012-2014), and has been a member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Integration-the VLSI Journal, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, and Signal Processing. He is currently a member of the editorial board of EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.